Alton Weekly Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 1

GEO. T. BROWN, EDITOR PROPRIETOR. THE ALTOS DAILY COITSIEB, rL-aUHHED EVZBY JlOJOtTSC, (STKBAVS EXCEPTED,) BY GEORGE T- BROWN. In Rates of For one square, 12 lines orleM, firat PO 2 3 00 5 6 00 One week, without alteratio Two weeta, without Onemonft.iritbont alteration- Two months, without Three months, without Si! months, without alteration ISAAC SCAKR1TT, ey T.O.TvTLSOS, 1 Bud, of max.

T. ''cr Stui notice clothing, and family groceries, comer Alton. One year, wilhoat 1-2 OP Business Cards, per jcar, 6 linos or 800 Badness year, 1 square ia Displayed price gar for tie DAM.T most be handed in by 4 r. the day previous, insertion. THE ALTOH1KI-WEEKLY COTOUEB, SIZE AS IHE rtTOUIBED EVE8V KOTOAV, WEDSISPAT, ASO FEIHAV.

'To Single Sobiciibers, in advance. oo To Clubs ot Three, in advance. 11 To Globs of FOOT, in advance 1 To Clubs of Six, in Advertisements charged same as Daily. THE AITOH WEEKLY COUBIEE, A VERT LAKGE PAPER JOE THE COUNTRY rdULISHITP KVEItV THCBSriAV ALL THE MiWS OF THE WTXC. Terms.

'to Single Sateoriliers, in adi-ance S3 OP per year. To Clubs ol Four, in advance. 1 peryear. ToClabsof Ten, in advance 1 so per year. To Club! of Fifteen, in advance Mr and an extra copy to tbe getter np of the CInb.

Advertising Kates. One square, 12 lines or lew, first insertion- SI 00 Eadi eabseqaent insertion One Two months 3 Three montbs 4 Six montbs One year lluiines! Cards, 1 year, 6 lines or less BocineBS year, 1 price- for the Waaiv by Wednesday morning, toseonre insertion. 3S- AdvcrtiMments for DAH.T and WnEtxv to be nbareed SO per cent. additional on Daily prices. libenil discount the above rote.

will be made lo BUSINESS CAKDS. attonugs. JOHN FITCH, D. B.YRTE IE Orocen. Fonrenlljii! CommliilcB Her- Alum.

TRUMAN, CHENEY Jc CO. Inmber, DAVID B. BROWK, WATCSXV AKCB and Jawelor. Thirds! J3RRE HAVTE RAILROAD CAR FACTORY, We embraced'a opportunity atnrday to examine extensive estab- and gathered from the 'gentlemanly ertj Slrv- jmany interesting facts, which we -were folly and. hich are wellworth recording.

About forty; men, findvcqnstant employ-; lent at' these works, in depart- ents of ear manufacture, i Since the factory was in June; 1852, onehun- r'idand thirty platform an'd honsacars have een finished forithe Alton and Torre Hante. ad; and fourteen platform cars ior the Ohio and Mississippi Voad. 'In' addition to i. CilXINCCIU Grocen, and CemmUrfon and rorwarding cbksU, Slmrt-tt-Bud CHARLES TRtTAHnTXiTj, CALEB In Lime and Cement, ud ana forwarding Jtfcrchant.anoi»*t.«jidLeTea,AUon. MARK P1ERSON fc Alton.

11L WEEKLY GOUKIER, WN rf ALTON, THUKSDAY, SEPT. 8 10 JOHN MePIKE, S-W. Kabbuu. En. SETU T.

SAWJCEB, MORE Under the above caption the Telegraph, yesterday leads off ia a highly iraagmstive article, based upon street i-uprossions, in which the editor of the Courier is made to figure as a probable candidate for Congress or for the Legislature, or mayhap, for some thing else, bnt what, the Telegraph is no exactly sure. Oar neighbors bavo long claimed the liberty of indulging in the most loftly flights the imagination, and.when occasion'may demand, either from dearth of newSj the receip oE a ripe peach from friend, or the desir to shadow forth what they would do trade similar give it full play and lo! what host of suppositions ar brought forth, and what Solon-Eke dednc tions are drawn from The manner in which the Telegraph is ex crcised in relation to what the editor of th Courier may do, reminds us of the distres of a young miss of twelve, in Pennsylvani who was found bj her father in the garden weeping as if her heart would break. Th father, greatly alarmed, desired to know i she had been injured? no," th daughter replied through her tears and sobs The father insisted on knowing; and th daughter, after a strong effort calm her self; replied she was imagining that should grow a ew jears ij she shonl be married rind have, a little babj should live till it was three or four if it should crawl int to death, wouldn't HORACE F. ASH, ot Ash DUltr CenenO oat.tSt^«B«A.£roM6«U.lll. CHARLES A.

CALDWEtt, tETI DAVIS, Office on the Cnnrcn. MARTIS, and Counsellor at OBee Cnarle.Pnlnnej-. Allan. IU. Pissuions.

DR. A. POST DR. KIETCALF DR. F- W.

HANDLE fUtrrijants. THOMAS LOCK. Sf; WJLLIAM BRDDOS, d. on tt. M.

IV. CARROLL, noTZ OIW1IXE PADDOCK, eonwrot BUI. jMo l. aad KELSON UAYISEa, rtoTfti, tin ono door TOl tl Alum. UlinoU.

J. BAGWELL Mimknonlly laaUi In BMInUO. lor oe 1B 1K to iu tno GEO. THORP, 'SStt ALOKG." These words liave fallen upon our ears so ten of late, that it has become too common thing to overlook. We learn from the postmas.

ter of this place, that llero have been no than ten failures of this kind this month. last Wednesday, there was a mail agent alpn but still we gotnn mail. On Thursday mornini mails leave here for Collinsvillc and for Lebanon supplying a large number of offices, all the ma matter that lailcd to slop here on that day, mu lie over a week. This is too bad. We ever get a Chicago paper, now-a-days, unless it through the kindness of a conductor or some olh cr friend.

We should get the daily Chicag Journal and Democratic Press, but as it is, the seldom ever come to hand at all, and never i less than three or four days. Why is this 1 th mails should 'come from there in ten do not our papers find their way into them We hope that the attention of the Departmcn will be turned to this matter, and some one upon the cars that tvill attend to their businesi We deeply sympathise with the editor ot the Macoupin Statesman, from which we take the above. 0 ur' mail arrangements have become a disgrace, and a nuisance, and in many cases, instead of greater speed and certainty, there are constant failures. Time and again, onr daily paper, sent up the country to Carlinville, Springfield and Jacksonville, will return to the Alton Post Office the neit day, to be again placed in the mail bag to take another tour. The route agents are either totally ignorant of their business, or criminally neg- igent, and the.

public interest calls for a speedy remedy. The Statesmanls not alone in its sufferings. On Tuesday evening last, we were informed by Mr. SCEBTS of the Chicago Press, that be did not get onr daily paper of tener than two or three times a week, and that other papers in this section were treated in the way. We have long known that the Chicago Post Office was in a disorganized state.

Bushels of mail matter are sent to the Alton office from Chicago, destined for Kock Eiver and other portions of Northern Illinois. The saow haa frequently been the case withmail matter for Eastern Illinois. Al! this entails endless work uppn the Postmaster here. This system of appointing mail agents who aro entirely ignorant of the country through which they travel, is a groat outrage, and to us has been a loss of hundreds of Scarcely a day elapses that we do not have letters complaining of these neglects of the route agents, and when we step to tho post office, we wili probabiy find the papers returned here, after traveling no one knows where. The slow coach was a decided advance on the present system.

his they have done all the job work of the i Terre Haute road, including the manufacture frogs and switches." Tho oars for he Ohio and Mississippi road are part of a ot of one hundred and fifty which tho Com- iany hive contracted to The low water on the and exorbi- ant price of freight, have delayed tho arri- al of large quantities of their iron which is awaiting shipment at Pittsburgh. The force now employed is able to turn out twenty five cars per month. Their cars arepronounced by good judges to be supe- in strength and workmanship to the cars general use. They have heretofore cast je oar wheels used in the construction of cars, and expect, after enlarging their furnace, to dp so again. contemplate an enlargement of the whole establishment, and considerable increase of force in order to the demands made upon the establishment.

They have receivaed a proposition to juildthe passenger cars for the Ohio and ilUsissippi Rood, which with the construction of their own passenger oars, will be an immense work. In connection with this establishment-are planing apparatus and a sash'factory. The latter is in the story under the direction of J.M. W6on, ah intelligent Boston Mechanic. TJiemaohine employed in tbe manufacture of sash is one for which a patent has been secured by Mr.

J. LEVIN, ofiSpringfield, The Inmber used is taken rough, and sawn, planed, mortised, und tho tenants shaped, and in fact the entire work is performed by the machine, except putting together, and the matching is more perfect than we have ever seen done by machinery. Four men may be employed on this machine, which, thus attended, will manufacture eight hundred lights per day, being an average of two hundred lights per day for each man employed. The entire machinery of this large establishment, including the sash and planing driven byone steam engine, which is a model, both in construction and It is what is called the Truss Framo engine, the only the kind in tho West, manufactured at the American machine works at Springfield, Moss. It is equal to thirty horse Thirteen dispatchTwoereceived some days WnpejoOnjjxplosion on the steamer Timpur Missouri, near Jefferson OTittenaeopunt, just received, shows that the extent of the deslruction was muolTunderrated by Thefacts, as givenbythe JZepuoKcan, are as About ten o'clock, on the morning of the j.ii6t:after.the steamer Timour No.

2 had landed at; Edwards' wood yard, two and a half miles below boilers exploded, leaving the boat a total wreck. Six persons were found dead, and others supposed: to have been thrown overboard and drowned. In tho confusion, the number of killed and drowned could not be About seventeen wore scalded and otherwise Mr. Dix, tho pilot, was thought to be dying: Mr. Eckers, the clerk, had his family Two of his children were severely injured; "'MrDE.

with his three children, was sitting on the boiler deck. Mr.E. received and his youngest child escaped unhurt. Mr. White, of Roanoke, was severely The explosion was heard distinctly in town, and many persons started down immediately to render assistance.

Two of the boilers were thrown on the. railroad track, the other into the river. Many pieces of the wreck were found half oE The hull was breaking, and but few goods could be saved. The entire upper works were destroyed. Th'ere were butfew cabin passengers.

-'The injured men were principally deck hands. The porter was thrown about sixty or seventy yards, dead. Charles, W. McCord and John R. Scott the engineers of tho Timour, voluntarily appeared before V.

F. Hickman, U. arM.gayeJbbiid' in the sura of $4 dboj'to appear to any misconduct, negligence or to theii respective, duties, which may be brough against them. The place as yet, the ferm common to all places of becoming quite attractive-as a place'of resort ta thpse who" have the moral senousiy and eamestlyflpon.thi«oiemn;fact that all "that born must "We say moral courage, ho'' one with intelligent will wiliingly of; all things mortal who "does' nprpossess.this Thaf.ttert'!'ii slass whoitakepbaBure, mournful it be, in Tisiting th9 place where the loved and lost liobnried, is endent from the numerous improvements afal monuments, many of them. costly, which are tosbo found there.

Iron fences of tasteful workmanship en- closa' shaded; graves, planted withlowers that exhale the sweetest fragrance earth can yield, with over- greens, thati specie" more -eloquently than words can express the -'soul's immortality, andI marble monuraints with beautiful and these in many piacesmeet do- sign of a monumqnt over'the grave of a KtV tie child isi peculiarly appropriate and is surmounted by tbe figurcbf a lamb Cut in the marble' at the head, and at the foot ADDIE" is VIII. bUB OWS 7 F.OREiGN ITEMS. experiment has just been successfully mndp in France of employing swallows to carry letters, Jns pigeons were, used some and runs with so little friction that it power makes no perceptible noise. learn from Mr. WILCOX that the rails are laid on the Terre Haute Road one half mile beyond Bunkerhill, and tho company have nearly a sufficient amount of rail on hand to lay the track to Hilisboro.

A construction train rnns out daily as far as Bun- kerhill, leaving Alton at 7 o'clock A. and returning, leavesBunkerhillnt 3 o'clock, P.M. The new engine, the Alton, which arrived a few days since, is nearly ready to take its place on the track. We aro informed that the joad remains in the hands of the contractors until the first division is completed, when as far as finished it will bo transferred to tho company. TRIAL TRIP.

Yesterday the new and beautiful locomotive "Alton," just received by the Terre Houte aud Alton Railroad company, made a trial trip to Bunkerhill, under the direction of Mr. WiorrniAS, the contractor's engineer. A couple of platform cars bad been fitted up for the accommodation of the number cf invited guests. The train started at 11 o'clock, and the trip to Bnnkerhill was made in just one hour, including all that the locomotive was.most admirably constructed for speed. After arriving at Bunkerbill, the company was treated tp an elegant dinner at Richards' Hotel, at the expense of the Contractors, and in the afternoon they returned to town highly pleesed with the trip.

The locomotive, constructed with inside connections is from the Taunton works, and is said to be superior to the ordinary method of connection, and runs much more steadily on tho track. Mr. MATTOOS, one of tho Contractors, accompanied the party. Yesterday being our weekly mail day, wo were prevented from accepting the invitation extended to ns. of Inscriptions and Belles-Letters has decided that the election for tho place left the.death of M.

RAOBL-ROCHZTTE, the be postponed for.six months. the official returns, it appears that the production of beet root sugar in France, during tho year ending, on the 1st of Jane, his been 75,000,000 kilogrammes, being an increase of one million over that of the pi-e- cedingyear. French Minister of War has notified the officers in the navy that' ihe Council of Admiralty has decided unanimously on the suppression of swivel guns, the aim of which is very uncertain, but retains the blunderbuss as calculated to render useful service in warfare, particularly in close combat. timo since, some grains of wheat, which had been taken from an old Egyptian sarcophagus nt Cairo, were given to the Agricultural Society of Compeigne, by whom they were sown with the most surprising results. The stems which have risen from this seed are as large as a reed, tho leaves are more than an inch in breath, and the ears have each one hundred grains of very large size, so that several of the original seeds have multiplied 2,000 fold.

It is thought the seed dates as far back as SESOSTRIS, or at least CLEOPATRA. THE LOUISVILLE intelli- by an urn 6r flower vaso. only inscription;" suggestive- to stranger' unknown; child has joined the parents suggestivoof broken cords of affection which time pan never unite; of earthly hopes, for- ever'blasted; or exchanged for of a brighter, purer, moro'enduring nature, to bo realized "beyond the vail." Many are the.new made graves of tho present season, unknown as such but'for tho yellow earth that raised to tho surface to make room for the abandoned tenements of un'dying'spirits. The grounds are kept'in 'excellent order, and present a. very different'appearance from what they'exhibited a few years''ngo.

The water in tho Connecticut river at Holyoke lias now fallen so low ib'at it is only a foot'deep upon the-top the (lam pf the Hadloy Falls-Company, that flashings have been put on without difficulty, and a thorough examination df'the riverbed at the foot of the dam, has shown that the work stands as strong and as perfect as upon tho day of its completion. The Connecticut river is now fordable -in many-places. At the Falls, two miles south of Ilunovor, N. the water of the river is foiiror five feet below the bottom of tho canal through which scomrand rafts uscd to pass, and at the fool of the upper dam the rocks are so exposed that one may jump from rock to rock entirely across. Dear I "it down to write yotf the ringing in my ears of that delicious musicior.

the parched earth has been aolpngslghmg and at this very; moment while I going millions of hearts'over! our sun-scbrcbed land, the fervent for.therain It isnot so much in the great city hero, that, we are made immediately sensible of the of this long-continued for days, and weeks, and months, xvith scared an intermission, tie redsun has been glaring steadily down, like Ihe angry eye of sooie potent, unearthly charmer, over Ihe once green fields and tiio singing brooks, watching green' blades, 'and- ihe bright.lflo'wcrs' gradually, withering and los'ing their bloom beneath tho' powerful, spell. by he holda them; and the "rivers' and the brooks, and the wild streainlcUi daily.receding from' Iheir. accus- omed shores, and slowly, slowly, athering Iheinselves into, narrower and yet arroivcr heariiig their swcel music grow and fainter, day by as though re long it would cease yet there, nthe'namc of Notnrei'lb'itiKc due effects of the ong-cohtinued dry 'weather is much felt, and he rain so gladly But still, though Ihe country feels Ihese Ihings more, we yet 'not entirely- insensible lo lein. Wo "are oppressed by Ihe long continued icat glaring down upon us, and fairly glistening Ihe red brick and tho flag BWncs; and nos'lrils filled, and our eyes blinded, in various ocalities, by the clouds of dust" peculiarly sensible of Ibis as I this nller- passed through Chatham slrcel, urging my under-the burning us best I could lirough the Iravelers, and the various other necessary and unnecessary-matters with which this most decidedly unique thoroughfare is crowded. the rain almos made mo going to endeavor lo you a slight idea of Chatham street Tho stranger, as he sils at hbrchamber window the Astpo and looks down, wrapt in adrnira lion, on the throng and diversity of life moving to niid fro beneath but hi gaze a and looking across tliaJowe end tbe uncicu: honored Tammaly Hall Ihcre is whcro Chatham slrcel begiiis-T-puath am slreel, but for the ideas of ail.

ihat.ubcautifu and lovely that we. arc npnl.lo.ossociiitc wit that home" pruia'Ucd cboseii people, niigli easily be' mislakeri, ipr a second Judca, or Ih New On" fine.days,: in passin through" jtranger will be struck with th long line, on cither, side, of sidewalk'standees dignified by the title of outdoor clerks." Th fronts of the slorcs are obscured from view by multitu'dv of. ciothhig, and ihe wide doorwa occurred from sun-stroke in St. Louis-on Thursday. Three were reported to have occurred at Illinoistown the same day.

gence says that twenty dead bodies have been taken from the ruins of the church that was blown down at Louisville on Sunday; that nearly that number are fata i n- jured or seriously maimed. The storm struck the boats ot the levee, and did serious damage the heaviest to the New Memphis. All her upper works were blown off and shattered, and the hull injured. Several other boats were blown on the Falls. A.

C. EASTJIAS, of Springfield lost $000 in gold on Tuesday, at thnt place evening, at the depot of tho C. M. R. Ho had been to Louie, and carried hit money in a carpet sack, which he took from the cars and'placed under the scat of a buggy that was io waiting to him up town Shortly after leaving the depot the carpc sack was missed, and as it could not full ou in going a little distance over a smooth street it Fs inferred that it was stolen before th owner left the depot, by some one who saw him place it under tho buggy seat.

SECRET Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio, and the adjacent States have passed a resolution not to admit to church membership any persons belong to secret societies. gives no rel hatham street still as thronged as.eveft.and equal din is still in our earav' We. are passing rough a very pronuWns throng, as we and Gen- oifgove es-rC hinese, Celtic and AngUvfixonrGermans, French, and every other''conceivable on -pretty shop-girls flitting it us in squads, in their plain, neat calico dres ies, and their young iaces, bright with life and erriment; Dutchman bad gar, and in a throng it is offensive, but hedorfi: ire, for he "hai a right to tobacco on street if he pleases; those Irish laborers como stiing against yquVand'if your nice broadcloths re sbniewh'at soiled bythe fricfion, you, have np usiness-ito compiain', "for you have left hem -at iome; sailors, in 'thcir'loose shirta. and tarpaulan whis- ered chins "go'rolling past; the are ell planked wilh Celtic'iruit and lants, for whose entire stock a table of sometwo yithrec feet, mbrella, is'quite imfficient; Chinese cigar ven-, in their large, loose.pantaloons, rimlcsf, hats, oyershadowuig: iheiriwoodcn faces, ndtheir.long jewels to their ect behind, assiduously guard all the 'corners and treet hand-organs, vwith lie monkey blend their dujcet strains n. the general hiim anddin, and by theur crowded urchin in rendering the street Yoii wish.

crps6, fprthc opposite walk seems more favorable for locomotion. "Just icn a car stops-to jirop.a bdl ringsj and jusfas it passes'on, ake uponc acartman wishestp.pass the stage; he stige is top near so one Of the cartmim's wheiis comes in contact with some liberhian dame's Put-door ice cream and confectionery Dstablishment, and down totters her whole tock'in trade; Ihe stage sweaiw, the cartman swears back; tKc Hibernian' Ia3y buMts into 'a mixed fit of grief and the passers-by col- ecl, and Ihcrc is likely to be'a general row, when 11 policeman steps up and drives-carl and cart- nan off to the station keep your way on ihrough Ihe maW of Ihc unwashed Democracy, (for: Chalham street'- is far removed romthc lialints.of uppcr-ten-dom)whcn present- the. street widens but into a large, open square- ttere the din, arid the and bustle'and traffic oven increased. On one corner is posted au enterprising individual who, for the trifling Bum of one rent, wil! eetyou in ficliair, tell your exact weight lo a anptiiei has. lung tester, who, fo? one.

cent, willallpwy ou to blow into the machine as hard as. a third has started a miniature gallery-in the street, where, for.a.pcnny tlie boys can try to shoot ihe Turk, out" of the box. front of the Scoil, Coiie ument to'fciCEp'nraui' WilKams, oh the shore. of Lake hear which" no feU, reported their duty. done.

The report was accepted and expense defrayed by the Aliirnlii. Pot Hop- lins'then to the meeting that the spot on which Milji Sail and jtheir associates, 'br our JMissions and had been byone who was in ground ie walks and carriage drives, so that the consecrated grove: which en- closesitmay be visited by the lo.ver'of Missions, that he may cherish 'those soch associations wbuld inspire: Aboautiful and. touching speech' was' by Dr. upon the. action was.

passed five Ihcgrove, and lay it out appropn- ateiy. The prize speakingpn Tuesday evening was not remarkable Tor WUUamVtownibut the address 61 which followed, was able and HJMJibject wai a lesson to the scholar. He stood fqrth in defence of literature, aside from alone. -Tbe'tiJa rolls oh; "'tU tide rolls That sweeps the pleasure from our hearts, The Iove4.one»lrom our tide afflictions to our lot, And anguish and despair, And bean frorajyoath's unmfaed brow Tie chanos tnat.pngaretLUiew. The ilde rails onSiraye'af tef wave.

Its swelling waters flow Before it an is bright aad tarr, Behind it all is The infant from Us 'mother's breast, lie gay and blooming bride, Are swept away arut.lxime along The itidi" rolls onr-the ioldier'Mye Grows dim beneath its swell; The icbolar thnns the roystie lore That he hath loved so.wea: The monarch pafs tie crowrrasiae, Ar a labor's jteuy slave thn a The commencement exercises Wedn day, werelong'but npfwitiiout: iirteresU In excelled respectively in humor, felicity of illustration and stirring eloquence In the, afternoon the Metaphysical and Ethical orations' by Messrs. Northrop.nniBewey, were more commendable than -the: valedictory which was delivered by Rockwell Pern. degree of A. was conferred upon 62, and the degree of A.M,jipon 10. Hia Excellency, Gov.

Washburnc, received the title and other honorary degrees were conferred, and tie exercises closed byprayer. WHAT IS TO BE THE FATE OF KAA'SASf The following short extract we cut from an account of a recent visit to Kansas, by the editor of Ihe. Presbyterian Herald, of LouisvUlc, Ky. With sympathies for the Sooth, he has the can- dor.to admit thai fate holds Freedom in reserve for.Kansas:/. The probabilities, however, are that the emi- iiui fiom the free will far outnumter those are now in Cltatha'ia theatre, where nightly Jack iiey or to edify the boys by their abounding jiers'onatipris.

of all the of the £3T The Montreal BeraU, ono oldest papers in tho British provinces, says: "If Canada ceases to be a colony, she will become a as a member of the United States confederation or not, must depend upon events over which she has no Un. bailaou, Aloiu WILLIAM LVKSi Blcbtnond. I. L. s.

METCALF, MURDER IN ST. LOV1S. On Tuesday evening, a man named Francisco, Frantini, or Bordello, was shot Mij3lo- ton, mate on the steamer Forest Kosc. The wounded man died in a few minutes. Officer A.

B. Holton, of the day police, attempted to arrest Middlcton, when he was stabbed by the latter in the left side. The gash was so dreadful that the bowels protruded. His recovery is considered hopeless. Middleton fled to a yawl to the Illinois shore, but was pursued and arrested.

The man first murdered was pursuing a boy, who had stolen an apple and run lo the steamer for refuge. W. CHATTERIOS, BATTERTONfcEBBBCK, MARTIK, HAVENS CRANDALL, vnolonle nUU RE1GABT AUCTION-AND COMMISSION. ptrt.Intl.Jto UEO. THOar to the ule of nlnm MidvTexjlunaor bouaeu aanmbvion hotw.

S. A. BDCKMASTER Ic a on Had! of ia. vblch va WESTON, MINER Ic CO-, BENEDICT'S ROO Alton. rMinrnMir HMO thesrton WM.H.TCR»ER*CO 'S5 TOPPISQ BROTHERS, old Ttoliolo dalen'ln JoreKa tonwtJo 1 T.

w. fc H. SUHWKWE; Last year the applications for patents numbered 2,673, the caveats filed were 901, andthe patents issued 958. The extent of the field and the variety of production to which this species of skill is applied, are shown in tho number, nature and character of the productions. In the last ten years 18,440 applications for patents have been made, 6,674 caveats have been filed, nnd 7,673 patents have been granted.

These include improvements in every branch and division of labor that human skill 'is applied to, or that human neoessities require. A HoBRmLi! gentleman just from Paris, in Monroe e'onnty, brings to the Hannibal Messenger, intelligence, that on lastTuoaday evening, Mr. BSSJAMS SHOOT, living about three miles from that tpwn, ehot nnd killed Ms'wife, and.tben attempted to destroy bis own large knife, infiicting a wound irhich exposed his bpirels to the View, and which may prove mortal. No caaselm been assigned for the enormity. ITS' A general sympathy prevails in Boston for theenfierers by therecentdestraotion of stprespn of, the ovypprs the'Slen bjuldings have inti- jnaied that they were'-jipadyi to: meet iheir tenants upon the liberal and other persons have 'Informei, the that -if they tfesuelBnantaal, w3 they tare only tp gay so, and it shall be given.

DAKGER TO FRUIT TREES, ETC. We have heard fears expressed by several of our fruit growers, that a longer continuance oE the already protracted drouth in this region, will result in the destruction of many of their trees. The peaoh tree suffers id several trees of this kind have already died out. Ve visited the orchards of Mr. norrHBis- betterknewnas AKSOIB'S nursery, a few dJys since, and it was a melancholy sight to every where apparent.

Jr. H. informed ns that not a peck of peaches onld be found upon the hundreds of noble trees in his orchards, which have heretofore so bountifully supplied our -market. A few trees bore a meager quantity of fruit, but it was little more than half size. The same may be said of quinces.

Apples are plenty, but aro inferior to the ordinary yield in quantity, size, and flavor. Such is the almost universal story throughout this part of the county, nil in consequence of the drouth, which has now continued for ten weeks, and no prospect that it will soon terminate. Our exchanges from Chicago, from Iowa, Wisconsin, New York city, and various other points speak of copious showers. Numerous thunder-storms have arisen during the summer in sight of us, in tho south, in the west, in the north-west, and, in fact, immediately over our heads, but all havo passed away like the morning mist. A summer like the present; both for drouth and heat, is not within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

Some Galena or Iowa potatoes would be a luxury in our market now, but how to get there's the the river is so low, arid freights so high, ns to render their shipment impracticable. control. Toronto Colonist says: We Tnformerl that no less than eight persons havo been admitted into the lunatic asylum inn state insanity, occasioned by consuming quantities of camphor to prevent cholera. Some of them carried it about in their pockets, and kept from time to time eating small quantities nf it. tookit dissolved in brandy.

In all cases where it was taken in any quantity it produced in- sanitv. It is a fact well known, that a comparatively small quantity oE camphor will set a dog mad, and that he will soon afterwards die." letter, Prince John Van Buren was last at Leamington, Spa, England, for tho benefit the waters, accompanied by Sir BenjaminBrodie, the eminent physician. He will soon return home, being unable to pursue his European tour, as at first contemplated. THE FALL is STOCKS AT THE is an ascertained fact that the loss to the holders of railroad slocks during Ihe pasl twelve months, has been more than one fourth of their whole interest. Taking the eigbtprincipal railroads, whose shares are sold daily at Ihe New York Exchange, it will be seen that their decline has averaged 2D per according to the following figures: July, '52.

N.T. Central "4 Beading SS Mich. Central 112 Hudson 71 Xortb New lOi SlstJalv, 87 S3 S61 SO- 05 Pall. 30j .12 25 25J 25 21 2S at least SAD OCCURREKCE AT PARTY. A F.KIDAL ilicf lb the eye; for Ihrough it yon bu discover shelves groaning under IhiMmmcnse ac cumulalion of pantaloons, vesta, Floating wilh ihe crowd timl is through this thoroughfare, the keen eye of th Hebrew clerk soon delects tbe strangcr-from Ih accustomed promcnader, and quickly assails with the interrogatory, Buy shuin clote lo-dayi The stranger is wise lo pay litlle heed lo Ihcs queslions Irom the slart, for if he docs not he dcslined lo be bored with a succession of Ihem from one end of Ibe slreet lo iLe other, and should nol nllow ihe familiar salutalions "Ha! "Halloo! Tommy," io In umph over his indifference for once he conscn to tarry by the way, and parley wilh Ihese acu merchants, len lo one he is a goner, to the extent, of a pcutiful conl!" or zuch nishc banta- loons!" Chathan slrect is the great mart of great avenue upon whose ccasless throng, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses, and the prophels, manage to live, and grow both fat and rich, leading an easy, lazy life, and having at least half an eye, at the same time, to Ihe pleasures and good Ihings of life.

How long Chatham street has been the chosen residence of the children ol Judca, I cannot say, mil certainly beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant;" and now, so firmly are they established in it, and so much have they become a part of il, lhat to be shorn of them, slrect would be Chatham street no more, but become Ihe mere relic of departed glory- A wal Ihrough: Chalham slrcel, Ihough Ihe squeamish might Ihink it a nuisance, to Ihc curious is fraughl withriuchin- terest. As we pass along through the crowd, suddenly we aro brought up" in from of a building, whose exterior is decorated wilh a profusion of paint-daubbcd canvass, representing Ihe jnderfu! animals and reptiles, to be seen within, a hurdy-gurdy in the window keeps us spellbound wilh the enchanting and novel strains of Old Folks at Home," or the more sacred air of" Jordan's a hard road to Iravel;" while a ferocious being, wilh face obscured by a wealth of whiskers and mouslachc, stands in ihe doorway irying," walk in ladies and gcnllcmcn! walk in Twelve Kciag all all lo be seen for only sixpence This is one of the-mxpcnny show shops; but while we stand gazing upon it in mute wonder, and ere we have made mind, as to whether it will pay lo go in, the crowd nan jostled us from our position, and we MDud lind.tiiuiider characters wilhin'tho: range of Jrama." The loHies, as we peep in, look gay, with their and painting, and the steps aic well doited with groups of newsboys, supernumeraries, and loafers in general. A long line of fruit, cake and peanut stands in front, gives the location an and a little way above, the band from the balcony of the Franklin Museum adds to the general bedlam and mixture of sounds. We have" merely attempted to describe the locality in the day time; butitis atnightthat Chatham jquaic and the regions round about tbe Chatham theatre are in Iheir glory. Then tho bright gas illiuminates the front ol the thcalre, reflecting down its bright grants torn even of the of the ilarctlala, and that many latter will go for making it a free State.

preponderance was the other way wh there but the emigrants from other 'r cept Missouri, had not then had time to get there. A fewr months may, and probably will, turn the scale the other way. Our Missouri friends think not, but they looked at the subject from their own stand-point, and not from that of the whole nation. So far as we can judge from the papers there are; ten persons preparing la go from free stales where there is one from a slave stale, anil then it is to be remembered that there are only some four or fire hundred thousand stee- to some twenty millions ofnan-slarehola-- ers to emigrate from." We hone our Louisville cotemporary is in his opinions. If the proper effort is made to people the new territories with freemen, they will, unquestionably, remain free.

But Ihcroisagtwd deal of work to be done. Let every one who has the time and the means, do all that can be done to encourage and strcnglhen the emigrant aid societies, the most effective instruments for the salvation of Kansas and Nebraska. Even conceding, as the Louisville editor concedes, thai- Kansas will certainly be a free State, is there not pleasure in contributing to bring about so desirable a result! At all events, let us not be induced to neglect the interests of the new territories, because it is assumed, in some quarters, that The quiet of the grave. Tbe tide rolls rammer's brook. Itglidethtotbeiad, But like hard winter's angry nde, Itnuaethtotheglaa; Irom kingly hall and loWly cot, The battle-fieU and hearth, v.

ft sweets into oblivion's sea The direnen on the Roll on, tbou dark and turbid wive! Then canst not bear away Tbe record ot the good anb brave. That Jmoweth not decay; Tfiongh neree may men lay bfflOT Thinzh deep thy cnrrent be, Still fnlihihalt lilt thy beacon high, And gnideni.through tae tea- PROFESSOR JOHN RUSSELL TEX- PERANCE; We present onr readers this morning with one of the best temperance lectures ever written. It was written by Prof. over thirty years ago, and has been more ex- tensively published and read than any tern- perance lecture to be found 'out of theBible. Tho conception of the article is exceedingly happy: admirably calculated to impress the intended warning upon the minds of the young, and contribute much io the formation of tho early temperance organizations.

We thank Dr. PUCK for hia prefatory history, and although not "Documentary" ii. is still as good, as it reaches hack to a time when the memory of a few men in this section of the country "runneth not to tbe contrary," In addition to Dr. PICK'S recollections, would add that we recollect the article waa published in one of the readers for tha British schools in 1830, and was one of the most admired selections. Per Alton, Courier.

A VERY TROUBLESOME WORW. MR. Enrroa I learn that your readers look vilh interest for ihe articles in your paper from rays upon the weollh of edibles on Ihe slalls be- iiealh Ihi! hnnd men in Ihe Museum are groaning through a favorite air; the crowd is rushing inlo Ihe Ihcalre, and the very air is redolent wilh Ihe drama of pcanuls. Chalham square is the connecting link between Chatham slreet and the Bowery; but for the present we will stop where we sire, and leave Ihc Bowery unexplored. F.

C. CO.VMEKCE.VEKT OF WILLIAMS' COLLEGE. rirmrwrndente of tho Alton WlLLIAMSTOWS, Aug. 32, 1854. Mu.

EDITOR is seldom thai a business an can find time to" attend no relative on earth are the majority of men distant as to their Alma Mater, after Ihey are ce loosed from her apron strings. If Ihey come ck nt all, il is after Iheir business for lliis world ibstly done, and when the impressions made Qg- Tho track of thoMilwaukie and Mississippi Railroad has commenced sinking where the road runs on the marsh land between Second and Third Lakes, about eight miles from Madison. The recent heavy tains have raised the" lakes, and the water" has washed away the foundations of the embankment, and caused the track to sink. The track has fallen abouteight feet, and lies sis fast under for a space of 140 rods, tho superstructure having sunk and forced up the earth on pach side. The detention of crossing, and the cost of filling up, are the only inconvenience and expense, A freight car belonging to the Og- densbure Railroad caught fire on the Concord Eailroad and was entirely destroyed, together with the contents, consisting of silks and rich goods.

HILLSBORO' ACADEMY. Wo have received the catalogue of tbo Hillsboro' Academy for the academical year 1853-4. Tic average number of students in attendance institution through the year was 89. Wholennmber of different students, 178 i number of malo', 90; females, 88.. We notice that nearly- all the.stndents residents of Montgomery County, which, in attendance, indicates that this.

Academy is pppular at is one of tho best certificates ot a Epod'jyh. 00 singular and fatal occurrence took place in the town of Hamburg, Erie County, N. a few days since. An Irishman was engaged in digging a well, and after getting down to the depth oC some eighteen or twenty feet, found signs of water very perceptible. At last he struck his pick through a thin layer of slate, when, all at once, and with a noise thunder, sufficiently loud to bo distinctly beard all over the neighborhood, a stream; of mingled gas and water burst the orifice, instantly killing the unfortunate man, and filling the well the depth of ten or twelve with wn'ter.

Gas still escapes profusely, and the water is in constant and violent motion, resembling a large cauldron of boiling A sad affair took place nt Elgin on Friday night last, which resulted in tho death of Edmund Adams, a young mnn aged about 18 years, and a resident of Elgin. It appears that a young man by the name of Cy- rosll. Larkin woa-married the evening before, and his acquaintances made up a party for a charivari. Assembling round the house, struck up with bells, tin pans, and instrumental accompaniments, when a gun was twice discharged into their midst from a window, taking effect upon younc Adams, who instantly fell. was removed to his father's residence, when it was'found two buckshot had entered his forehead.

He lingered until Saturday night, when be died. A jury was summoned, and brought in a verdict that tho deceased came to hia death by shotstred from Mr. "Larkin's house, by somo person or persons unknown to tho "lt' was proved before tho jury thnt Mr. Larkin borrowed the gun for tho purpose of shooting nt the party if they camo to his Both of these young men had resided for long time in Elgin, belonging to highly respectable families, and were esteemed as quiet und exemplary young men. The affair has cast a gloom over tho place, and clouded a life which was glowing with hope and happiness.

Dero. RUFFIANLY OUTRAGE, On last Sunday evening a disgraceful occurrence took place on tho nb ICT about two miles northwest of Lockport. Somo three of onr citizens were riding along peaceably and quietly in a carriage, when they were set upon by five ruffianly wild Irishmen-tbe horses were seized by one of Hhe rest of the banditti iced amissault on the inmates of the lv i rt nf tha aro pushed along, like a waif upon Ihc stream The cily cars go rushing past us cither way every half minulo; Ihp stages and carts, and car ringes, go rushing and rumbling along; tho cage; questionings of the clote" men are in our cars the hum of a thousand voices is floating around us; but above all this we hear one stentorian cry which still keeps marching on, and sounding on with Ihe unvarying energy of Longfellow's Excel sior, Iwelve sheets of writing paper for four iwenty-fivc self-sealing envelopes for four cents The strong and peculiar accent with which each word of this stalling cry is enunciated atlracls th atlcnlion of the stranger, and peering tliroug! tbe crowd.hediscovers moving tliougl with the'vehemcnt and elastic step of our excel of an old stager, whoso very moUpn.sccms lo saj "look before you a man some fifty years of age, of a somewhat crabbed and unsocial coun tcnance, carrying a satchel well stored with slock of and ever und anon gmn vent to the aforesaid verbal advertisement Th is the individual known lo all frequenters Chalham and Nassau slrects and Uic region thereabout, by the significeut cognomen of "Ih four cent man." That he has some other nam ihavo not Uie slightest doubt, but by.any othe Gotham 'would know r'or years haa travelled "up and down these slreels ever haunling them with that sapic solemn, nev cr-varying "shccls of writing for four self-scaling envelope for four cents." other words is he ever heari to uller once, and only once, was ho known I very. Owing lo the rite in rents, or in provisions, orperhaps in paper, the old feel it a duty to advance in the price of his good and the habilnca-of Chatham and Nassau, cariage with clubs and sto'nes. One of the (Kg- It is said'that boys are wading across It ii'tiiougnt the river has'not been so low steamer Mary 0.

arrived at St. Louis on Thursday; with two thousand one hundred and eighty-five packages of onions, sacks and 100barrels; 1,321 sacks and 100 barrels of which were one consignment. The onions were taken on board at Davenport, and.are the largest lota'-reeeiired thisjear." The gas iu'iha" city N. list week, pwing TaBtdestrno- tibn of meters; and servicea'connectcd with the" daring 25tholt. siv bead rightful dangerous wound in his side, which it is fearld will prove The other young men escaped without receiving much ot a and at nearly the same compelled to arnined, under the pretext that he was a Know Nothine," but 'finding no evidence ot persor, they very generously l6t young gentlemen ofour pity, the same one morningslarUedwilliIhecryr- narrow escape from say, fee e'very man" go-prepared to'protect his life and sppn forget.

True Dem. twelve shee of wriling paper iaifim cenls." The effect wa terrible; but the old man wearied for a day or Iwp-t-sober people amaze tho venerators the ancient and thp time-hoho ed werp shocked, the newsboys began to title and to.cpme, the old sad and under the-performance of this: stem dnty. was fast losing his: name-and his 1 likewise his customi-and that new arrangomcnt.wpuld not do, and it was hlit lew days 3 happier the man was again with hwpld'larn iar crv of cents," which has accustomed avenues. four cent nke great geniuses, hashad, rivals! and pun rfhUatcn but; their shprtrlivci and the ancient and brilliant cent idea alone.recciveSi.tho But the man" haa gone by, ai Ihev must necessarily be free. BepnHic.

1XTEREST1SG FROM CHISA. THE RUSSIAX ASDESGUSH VESSELS OF WAR. The Friend of China, of May 17th, says: "Ihe become more vivid from Iheir isolation ointhc scenes of active life. Whal Ihe feelings such an one musl be as he returns from a dis- nce, a stranger and alone, to the scenes of his ollcge life, and tollers along the walls which he nee trod in the pride and ardor of ambitious ope. 1 know not from experience, and you can laginc as well as I.

I have seen them often as ley slood and gazed upon ihe changes of me, with a sadness most deeply bave heard Iheir fiircwellto their brethren Alum- fnd no voice from the deathbed seemed more car the grave. To every one then- ia a feeling sadness mingling wilh the.pleasure of virtue, nd giving it a sombre No where is "pas- ng away" more impressively inscribed than pon College walk. In this little world four ears is the limit of a generation, beyond which me survive, and he who returns like disembodied host, "rc-vbiting tho glimpses of the moon" is lore lucky than the octogenarian first returned 3 his childhood's home. At present I am any thing but a man of bust- icss. Propose a Iramp of a dozen miles, or a sail, ironling excursion, and I am ready in a twink- ig.

So you might know I would attend commencement. It is only forty miles, ami besides the vanity of admission "ad gradiim secundum," my class were to meet for tho first line. Had all lone likewise all would have been Iherc, bul they one with his farm, the one with his merchandize, and one has married a wife. So vc were not all. there." For many "our eyes looked in vain amid the broken band." One will never meet us noblest and most vig- orons-of -us has thus early laid him low.

But I anticipate. Let us return and bllow rav route; wind wilh me round Ihc base of Monument that seems a fragment of some nige gray wall to separate the Waters, and thrown ueeiiseen distance from the port The opium receiving ships, before lying at Woosung, have all moved up within a short dislance of Ihe foreign facto- Stirling arrived here on the llth inst, in H. M. steamship Baracauta, and has shifted his flaz to the Winchester. The Rattier has proceeded to Shanghai to relieve one of the three vessels now Encounter, Grecian and Styx.

The Lady Mary Wood, by appointment, met the Styx off Outt- laff, to receive the report of her cruise in search of the Russian squadron. She has seen nothing of them. The bark Isabelila Hync, Caplain Colhoun, arrived Sunday, forty-one days from Hongkong, bringing us dales from Hongkong, to June 6th, Bve davs later than previous advices. PREPARATIOSS FOB Hongkong Register says: degree of alarm has existed for the past few days among Ihc Chinese population at seeing the preparations which are being made for the defence of the island. Many of the respectable shop-keepers and compadors who had their families here have sent them to their homes, or preparing to do so.

The publicity which has been given to tho defensive preparations which have been ting a battery at Ihe pen of Prof, loss RCESZLL, and read Ihem with an epicurean appetite. I herewith send you one of his articles, written in Missouri thirty- four years since, and first published in a paper called the IKsMurian, in the town of St. Charles. It was one of those rare articles, like Dr. LIX'S story of the whistle, that never becomes dim with or loses itswcightby frequent handling.

It had an extensive run in the periodicals the United States, and even in a foreign market. In about four years it went the rounds again, but somewhat injured and changed by interpolations, and found a place in the current almanacs. In the summer of 1826, while in Boston, I suggested to the editor of the Philanthropist, the first temperance weekly newspiper ever published, to give ifan insertion. Unluckily he gave Ihe same interpolated copy that had been issued, and that again the round of the periodical press. A correct copy was published in the Saiionat Reader, compiled by Rev.

PIEEFOST, of Boston. These worms have increased in size since Mr RUSSELL wrote their "natural history." Some fortifying Keilel's Island, elec- est Point, placing the Hercules in a position to guard the Ly-yue moon pas- Bage, enrolling an extra police force, will have al least this good effect, it will deter any of the dreaded pirate fleet from making a predatory uis- ccnt upon us. The alarm seems very unnecessary, however natural it may appear. DErAHTURE OF THE GOVEKSOR ASO THE An- snitAt, FOR THE A few hours after die arrival of the 8lh of April mail, bringing ihe news of a declaration of war, Ihc Admiral proceeded lothoNortbin-the Wiuchcster, the Governor and his suite leaving at the same time in Uie Barracaula. The Admiral doubtless left with a view of capturing the Russian lately, rt not now in these seas.

The'Governor, for the present leaves the island charge of the Lieut. Governor, to take upon himself the direction- ol affairs at Shanghai, where his presence not uncalled for. As Plenipotentiary, it is intention to visit Japan before he returns Southward. THE ELECTION IX IOWA-THE LESSOR IT TEACHES. The recent election of Iowa can only be prop- erlv expressed by styling it a It has no jfarallel in elections which have passed, because Ihe elements which operated lo produce the present result have never before been brought m- are monsters, and do mischief on a large The cfiects of Iheir bite are most dangerous and deadly along thejinea of our railroads, while in the process of construction.

The Irish laborers being strangers to the country and ils venomous reptiles, (St PATRICK having expelled them from the ould counthry many ages past,) arc mortally bitlen before they are aware. It is proposed to enact prohibitory laws in the Slate lor-thc protection of all clear-headed and honest citizens against these dangerous reptiles. J. M- PECK. Xoclc Spring, 7ff, Atig.Zd, 1854.

THE WORM. BY PHOF. JOBX SCS8ELL. ont reniuns all the wonai of Who has not heard of the rattlesnake or the copperhead 1 An unexpected sight of eilher of these reptiles will make even Ihe lords of creation recoil. Bnt there is a species of worm, found in various parts of this State, which conveys a pui- son of a nalure so deadly, that, compared with it, even the venom of the rattlesnake is To guard our readers against this foe of human kind, is the object of this communication.

This worm varies much in size. It is frequently an inch through, but as it is rarely seen, ex- lown when the flood drowned them. ilh me along the river, Wander through Ihose rich and fertile meadows, the paradise he made unto himself, mining the soil for Those noble elms, a mile away, shelter and adorn retreat of literati. Two miles farther up is Lee, the manufactory of mnumbered love letters, for what is in these oissivcs more substantial than- the paper! Here, partially in the earth, is the capilol ex- lension, white as a sun-dried snowbank. On yonder hill we are passing; is Lenox, the highest, hcallhiest and most recherche spot in Berkshire Here on this hill-ride farm, Bcecher.

facullivaling a rich crop of fancies, upon the lap of earth its groves hunting the queerest expression for some queer idea. I spent the night inPittsfield, the centre and metropolis of Bcrfeshire, our Jargesl village, yet lovely and quiet Anhourat twilight upon lake Pequonock, is masked with white. Starlight and music were almost superfluous "additions to the native beauty of the lake round which tho road winds enchantingly. Grcylock looms in the north, and the nearer 'range of the'Howies seem set in An early train took us to Adams, the terminus of the Hoosac Thence the 5 miles staging to Wilhamstown was doubly disagreeable from dust and the -We arrived on Tuesday the 16th, '11 o'clock. address by Dr ers esre taken place, and Iowa elects whig ssmen and Governor, Legislalure, and Congressmen, a.

will in the end elect a United Slates Senalor VVhat'haa' produced this change! "We hesitate not to affirm that it has been produced by the repeal of Ihc Missouri Compromise. Jne free States have suffered long and patienUy- They have not been fretful and crabbed. 1 hej have been patient and long suffering. iree State has iver attempted to infringe upon the prescribed rights of Ihe Soulh, and no free Slate so to do. If the North had.

repealed Sa paTof the act admitling Texas mlo Ibe Union which permits Iwo new slave Slates lo be fomied out of the Territory which was admitted the Soulh would have had occasion to find fault, although the admission of Texas in tho first m- -'-to the Union was contrary to the wishes The ly lives near a spring and bites the unfortunate people who arc in the habit of going there to drink. The brute creation it never molesls. They avoid it with the same instinct that teaches the animals ot Peru to shun the deadly Cova. Several of these reptiles have long infested our settlements to Ihe misery and destiuclion manv of our fellow citizens. I have, therefore, had 'frequent opportunities of being the melancholy spectator of the eflecU produced by the subtle poison which this worm infuses.

The symplons of the. bite are temble. Ihe eves of the patient become red and fiery; hu tongue swells to an immoderate size, and obstructs his utterance, and delirium of the most horrid character quickly follows. his madness, he attempts the destruction of his ne inhc has a family, his weeping wife and hMptoa infants are not Ihe objects ol his frantic fury. In a word, he exhibit to tho life, all Ihe detestable passions that rankle in the bosom of a savago; and such the spell in which his senses are locked, that, no sooner has the unhappy patient recovered from the par- oxism of insanity occasioned by the bite, than he seeks out the destroyer for Ihc sole purpose of being bitten again.

I have seer? a good old falher, locks as white as snow, his sleps slow and trembling, bes in vain of his only son to quit the lurking place of Ihe wonn. My heart bled when he turned away: for I knew the fond hope that his son would be the staff of his declining years, had supported him through many a sorrow. of America, would you know tho name of this reptile! It is called the Womc or SHAKING IK ram New York Times of Saturday morning has the following i of a vast majority of the Northern people. Tl repeal of the-Missouri Compromise was a grati itous insult to the sixteen free Stales, which has not been and which never RECORDER'S COURT. Persons convicted of Penitentiaay offences so far 23 -Three of whom havo been convicted on two each, making 20 conrictions in all so far.

rictcd of County Jai! offences la, Persons convic ers Acquitted 8 Dismissed, 9 Jury did not agree The court will probably be engaged for two Brooklyn; the' Mills Society of Inquiry. had been delivered: on Sabbath evening, but the of Pres. "Hopkins was prevented illness. He is one of whom WUliamslownV prond absence rnany. eeting Alun.ni the most A review attractive A review 0 a The" Mimmtiee appointed last year to erecfamon- Webber, the Co be tried.

Pu.LS.-Among all tho idle mcd- icamenta of the day, the names of which fill the common ear to nausea, we would not include Holloway's Pills, celebrated both here and in Europe, for their wonderful curative properties. A sound discrimination has taught us that their reputation is not ephemeral, but a solid substantial one, based upon a long and useful existence among tho intelligent, the refined, and the discerning. They are to be met with in every portion of the civilized Globe, and in every spot their virtues are alluded to with grateful enthusiasm, that well endorses their capacity and virtues. They are not merely designed for a special are depnrativcs, and cure, by the system elemenB.cf disease, in an exlraordinary manner in Rumors are afloat in regard to certain banks in the city. One establishment is said to be winding up its business as rapidly as possible, for the purpose of withdrawing iti notes from circulation, and returning its capital to tho stockholders.

Another one is not in a flourishing condition, and is believed to bo issuin" through the aid of second parties. We refrain from particularizing names at REV. CHABLZS We learn that the Rev. Charles Dresser, pastor of. St.

Paul (Episcopal) church in this city, is about to resign hia charge here, and accept a professorship in Jubilee College, in Peona county. Mr. Dresser has held his present position for fifteen years, and in every relation of life has endeared himself not only to his immediate flock, but every portion onr cpmmu- nitv. The severance of these ties will cause nniversol regret. We trust that enished virtues and merits-will be rewarded with the highest proaperity and ln his new field of labor.

Reg. The abolitionists have that OLD Pnovnui the 15th Julia Chafl; a bnxom widow of 30 Itt Bird was caught at last Chaff-.